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LIBERTY 

Enlightening  the  World. 


Photo=Gravures 

From  negatives  and  drawings  made  by  permission  of  the 
American  Committee. 


Copyright,  1895,  by  A.  Wittemann,  15  Laight  St.,  New  York 

THE  ALBERTYPE  CO    N  Y. 


Avery  Architectural  and  Fine  Arts  Library 
Gift  of  Seymour  B.  Durst  Old  York  Library 


"Liberty  Enlightening  the  World." 


DIMENSIONS  OF  THE  STATUE. 


Height  from  base  to  torch  ,151  1 
Foundation  of  pedestal  to 

torch,  .      .     3°5  6 

Heel  to  top  of  head,  .  in  6 
Length  of  hand,  .  .  16  5 
Index  Finger,  ...  80 
Circumference  at  second 

joint,  ....  76 
Size  of  finger  nail  13  x  10 

in. 

Head  from  chin  to  cran- 
ium,     ....       17  3 


Head  thickness  from  ear 
to  ear,  .... 

Distance  across  the  eye, 

Length  of  nose, 

Right  arm,  length 

Right  arm,  greatest  thick- 
ness, .... 

Thickness  cf  waist,  . 

Width  of  mouth,  . 

Tablet,  length, 

Tablet,  width, 

Tablet,  thickness, 


DIMENSIONS  OF  THE  PEDESTAL. 


Square  sides  at  top,  each, 
Grecian  col's,  above  base, 


Height  of  pedestal,  .  89 
Square  sides  at  base,  each  62 

DIMENSIONS  OF  THE  FOUNDATION.  ft. 

Height  of  foundation  65 

Square  sides  at  botton  91 

Square  sides  at  top  66 

DATES  IN  THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  STATUE. 


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French-American  Union  .  1874 

Work  on  arm  began    .    .  1875 

Arm  and  torch  finished    .  1S76 

Placed  on  exhibition, Phila- 
delphia   1876 

Bedloes  Island  ceded  by 

Congress   1877 

Face  and  head  completed  .  1878 

Entire     statue  finished, 

July  7   1880 

The  statue  weighs  450.000  pounds  or  225  tons. 
The  bronze  alone  weighs  200,000  pounds. 

Forty  persons  can  stand  comfortably  in  the  head,  and  the  torch  will  hold  twelve 
people.  The  total  number  of  steps  in  the  temporary  staircase,  which  leads  from  the 
base  of  the  foundation  to  the  top  of  the  torch,  is  403  From  the  ground  to  the  top  of 
the  pedestal,  iqs  steps  'J  he  number  of  steps  in  the  statue,  from  the  pedestal  to  the 
head,  is  154.  and  the  ladder  leading  up  through  the  extended  right  arm  to  the  torch 
has  54  rounds 

HEIGHTS  OF  CELEBRATED  STATUES. 


Mounted  in  Paris,  October 

Ground  broken  for  pedes- 
tal, April  

Foundation  completed, 
April  

Pedestal  completed  .    .  . 

First  rivet  driven  on  statue 
July  12  

Statue  completed,  Oct.  28 


1883 

1885 
1886 

1886 
1886 


Liberty  151 

Nero,  about  .  .  .  .118 
Colossus  of  Rhodes  .  108 

Arminius,    in  Westphalia,  92 


Borromeo  at  Lake  Maggi- 

ore   66 

Memnon   62 

Jupiter  Olympus    ...  43 


Frederick  August  Bartholdi 


THE  career  of  M.  Bartholdi,  the  most  distinguished  living 
sculptor  of  colossal  statuary,  bears  testimony  to  the  genius 
and  unselfish  industry  which  fashioned  the  Monument  of 
Liberty.  Born  at  Colmar  in  1833,  like  some  of  his  predecessors  in 
the  plastic  art,  he  started  life  as  a  painter.  Though  apprenticed 
to  the  famous  Ary  Scheffer,  M.  Bartholdi,  following  a  natural 
bent,  soon  turned  his  attention  to  sculpture,  and  produced,  at  the 
early  age  of  19,  a  notable  bas-relief  of  Francesca  da  Rimini.  From 
that  time  forward  his  fame  has  grown  with  the  years.  Like  the 
battle  painters  de  Neuville  and  Detaille,  M.  Bartholdi  became  in- 
spired by  the  bloody  Franco-German  conflict,  and  produced  in 
1878  the  Lion  of  Belfort,  a  colossal  monument  to  the  heroism  of  a 
beleaguered  garrison,  carved  in  the  solid  rock.  A  plaster  cast  of 
this  great  work,  together  with  his  statue  "  Gribeauval,"  now  the 
property  of  the  French  nation,  were,  in  1878,  among  the  chief 
attractions  of  the  Paris  Salon. 

The  Government  bestowed  on  the  sculptor  the  Cross  of  the 
Legion  of  Honor,  and  at  the  Centennial  Exhibition  he  was  awarded 
the  medal  for  sculpture  for  a  remarkable  exhibit  of  an  early  but 
powerful  work  termed  "  Genius  in  the  Grasp  of  Misery,"  and  the 
later  productions,  ''Peace,"  and  "  The  Young  Vine  Grower,"  all 
in  bronze.  Among  his  other  important  works  may  be  named, 
"  Vercingetorix, "  the  old  Gallic  patriot,  the  graceful  statue  of 
"  Lafayette,"  now  standing  in  Union  Square,  New  York,  and 
three  tributes  to  his  native  town,  a  fountain  dedicated  in  1863  to 
the  memory  of  Martin  Schongauer,  the  painter,  a  statue  of 
Admiral  Brouat,  and  one  of  General  Rapp. 

In  the  face  of  great  difficulties,  M.  Bartholdi  had,  for  over  ten 
years,  struggled  manfully  to  see  his  gigantic  work  erected  on  the 
threshold  of  the  new  world.  And  it  may  be  well  here  to  state  that 
his  labor  has  been,  from  the  outset  a  labor  of  love  and  not  of  profit. 
For  strange  though  it  may  seem,  the  sculptor  has  derived  no 
pecuniary  benefit  from  his  arduous  task.  In  a  recent  letter  to  the 
writer,  he  declares  that  for  long  years  he  has  made  many  serious 
sacrifices  of  time  and  money,  in  consummating  this  great  life- 
purpose.  But,  if  the  burden  has  been  hard  to  bear,  he  has  found 
his  reward.  In  consecrating  a  tribute  to  Liberty,  he  has  fashioned 
the  eighth  wonder  of  the  world. 


The  Statue  of  Liberty. 


The  Head. 


The  Hand  and  Torch. 


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Night  Scen 


Sectional  View  of  Statue, 
Showing  Spiral  Stairway  and  Ladder  to  Torch. 


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r 


View  from  the  Head. 


Frederic  August  Bartholdi. 


